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Tinashe Michael Tapera
Personal Health Informatics PhD Student | Data Scientist
I’m a PhD Student at Northeastern University, co-mentored by Varun Mishra and Stephen Intille. I study how to detect mental health states from personal devices like mobile phones and smart watches.
Education
Northeastern University
PhD Personal Health Informatics
Boston, MA
Jun 2027
Drexel University
Accelerated MSc. Psychology (Data Analysis Track)
Philadelphia, PA
Jun 2018
Drexel University
BSc. Psychology
Philadelphia, PA
Jun 2017
Professional Experience
Senior Neuroimaging Data Analyst
Penn Lifespan Informatics & Neuroimaging Center
Philadelphia, PA
Aug 2022 - Oct 2018
- Developed data pipelines for ETL and analysis of large-scale neuroimaging data sets between data warehouses in Python, R, and Bash
- Preprocessed and analysed neuroimaging data using cutting-edge software (fMRIPrep, XCPEngine, QSIPrep, ASLPrep)
- Maintained and supported multiple data curation software packages in Python and R
Data Science Intern
Salesforce
San Francisco, CA
Oct 2017 - May 2017
- Focused on discovery of organizational insight using internal human resources data sets
- Developed a semi-supervised learning algorithm to track employee performance by matching topic models of continuous feedback and goal-setting data
- Investigated comorbidity of employees’ insurance claims data to dynamically classify claim types and employee phenotypes
Selected Publications
FlywheelTools: Data Curation and Manipulation on the Flywheel Platform
Frontiers in neuroinformatics
2021
First Author
Mobile footprinting: linking individual distinctiveness in mobility patterns to mood, sleep, and brain functional connectivity
Neuropsychopharmacology
2022
Middle Author
Developmental coupling of cerebral blood flow and fMRI fluctuations in youth
Cell Reports
2022
Curation of BIDS (CuBIDS): A workflow and software package for streamlining reproducible curation of large BIDS datasets
NeuroImage
2022